Christmas and Cannolis
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
With Christmas season in full swing, baker Regina San Valentino is up to her elbows in cake batter and cookie dough. Between running her own business, filling her bursting holiday order book, and managing her crazy Italian family, she's got no time to relax, no room for more custom cake orders, and no desire to find love. A failed marriage and a personal tragedy have convinced her she's better off alone. Then a handsome stranger enters her bakery begging for help. Regina can't find it in her heart to refuse him.
Connor Gilhooly is in a bind. He needs a specialty cake for an upcoming fundraiser and puts himself—and his company's reputation—in Regina's capable hands. What he doesn't plan on is falling for a woman with heartbreak in her eyes or dealing with a wise-guy father and a disapproving family.
Can Regina lay her past to rest and trust the man who's awoken her heart?
Customer Reviews
3.75 stars-sexy and sweet
3.75 stars--CHRISTMAS AND CANNOLIS by Peggy Jaeger is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, romance story line focusing on thirty-two year old, bakery owner Regina San Valentino, and thirty-six year old, businessman and owner of a web and app design company Connor Gilhooly.
Told from first person perspective (Regina San Valentino) CHRISTMAS AND CANNOLIS focuses on the building business and personal relationship between thirty-two year old, bakery owner Regina San Valentino, and thirty-six year old, businessman and owner of a web and app design company Connor Gilhooly. Angie’s Bakery came highly recommended by a friend. When his holiday caterer fell through, Connor Gilhooly set his sites on the small Italian bakery owned by Regina San Valentino, the woman with whom Connor would fall in love. With only a few short weeks before the holiday rush, Regina agrees to make a special cake for the fund raiser Connor is sponsoring for Pearl’s Place, a place Regina knows only too well What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Regina and Connor, and the potential fall-out as Regina’s tight-knit Italian family becomes obsessed with Connor’s history, and the secrets he has yet to reveal.
Regina San Valentino knows heart break and loss but getting through the holidays means pushing aside her own happiness for the happiness of others. As the owner of a popular bakery, Regina spends a good portion of her life baking and ensuring everything runs well. Meeting Connor Gilhooly stirs something within our story line heroine, something Regina shut show years before.
The relationship between Connor and Regina is one of immediate attraction but a relationship that began with a promise and a business deal for a local fund-raiser. Regina had no idea how much Connor’s presence would affect her life, a presence that is all but destroyed when her well-meaning but controlling family begins to hunt for sins of the past. The Sex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful secondary and supporting characters including Regina’s busy Italian family: her parents Sony and Ursula, brother GianCarlo and Trixie, Petey and Penny, Aunt Frankie, Uncle Joey, Aunt Gracie, several cousins, as well as Connor’s mother Molly Gilhooly.
CHRISTMAS AND CANNOLIS is a story of family, of loss, of heartbreak and love. The premise is engaging and entertaining; the romance is sexy and sweet; the characters are energetic, bold and colorful